Taiyuan is located in Shanxi. Speaking of Taiyuan, it has a history of more than 2,000 years. This long history gives it the title of an ancient civilized city. There are four distinct seasons here and there are countless attractions. So, let us follow the city culture to learn about the East Lake Vinegar Garden, one of the top ten tourist attractions in Taiyuan.

East Lake Vinegar Garden

Donghu Vinegar Garden is located at No. 26 Madaopo between Dongshan Expressway and Jianshe North Road in Taiyuan City. It covers an area of ??more than 20,000 square meters and is the first in Shanxi Province. A corporate and factory-based museum that dynamically displays traditional and modern mature vinegar production processes and the historical and cultural connotations of mature vinegar. The exhibition hall and vinegar therapy garden of East Lake Vinegar Garden. It has collected various vinegar-making utensils, farming utensils and more than 700 vinegar therapy prescriptions since the Western Han Dynasty in my country. It fully demonstrates the historical and cultural heritage of Shanxi mature vinegar through the display of ancient and modern utensils, excerpts from literature and classics, pictures and photos, and physical display of products. .

Approaching the antique building Meiheju Vinegar, what comes to you is the sour and fragrant smell of old vinegar. Entering the antique Meiheju Vinegar Factory is like entering an old vinegar workshop 500 years ago. The old vinegar is fragrant, refreshing, and full of vinegar flavor that is unforgettable. The craftsmanship and steps of making mature vinegar such as "steaming, fermenting, smoking, drenching and drying" can be seen at a glance in the workshop. Visitors can participate in part of the production process or enjoy the "soft, sour, fragrant, sweet and fresh" feeling of mature vinegar. respectable. Transportation: Take bus No. 9 or 809 to Gonggongxincun, then walk for 10 minutes to No. 26 Madaopo. .

Among the 333 "first batch of industrial and agricultural tourism demonstration attractions" announced by the National Tourism Administration, the East Lake Vinegar Garden is the only project with the theme of vinegar culture and the only vinegar culture tourism park. The comprehensive registration of trademarks such as "East Lake Vinegar Garden", "醯园", and "醯方" is an effective way for enterprises to protect intellectual property rights, allowing enterprises to use legal means to combat unfair competition, and at the same time, it also provides The world provides a platform to understand Shanxi. As a registered trademark, its scope of protection not only covers tourism, but also vinegar cultural displays and craft operation performances.

General manager Guo Junlu of East Lake Vinegar Garden said that as a special tourism, East Lake Vinegar Garden will develop chain operations in the future to let more people understand and consume authentic Shanxi vinegar. According to estimates, after the renovation, the annual number of tourists received by the East Lake Vinegar Garden will increase to 300,000, and the direct economic benefits will reach 6.5 million yuan.

In 2005, after being recognized as a national industrial and agricultural tourism demonstration attraction by relevant parties, it was approved to register a tourism trademark. This is the only vinegar cultural tourism park in my country and the first vinegar garden tourism trademark approved to be registered in China.

East Lake Vinegar Garden currently has Meiheju Workshop, which is known in the industry as "China's No. 1 Vinegar Brewing Workshop"; there is an old mature vinegar and healthy vinegar therapy garden and an honorary showroom of the East Lake brand; there is a Shanxi mature vinegar shop With projects such as modernization and assembly process, the park has formed a historical museum of vinegar culture and a unique industrial tourism park.

Since its opening in 2002, East Lake Vinegar Garden has received nearly 400,000 tourists. Especially during the May Day Golden Week in 2004, the number of tourists reached 20,000. As a tourism product, the annual sales of "five-year-old vinegar" alone have reached more than 1.5 million yuan. More than 130 travel agencies in the province have established cooperative relationships with it, and more than 40 travel agencies in surrounding provinces and cities such as Beijing and Hebei have become regular partners. Domestic and foreign media such as the American National Television Station and Japan's NHK Television Station have made detailed reports on the East Lake Vinegar Garden.